[ Quotes ]
Katimsky (reading to the class) : 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun. Coral is far more red than her lips. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun. If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seem roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks. And in some perfumes there is more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go...my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.' What kind of girl is Shakespeare describing here? Is she, is she the most beautiful girl?
Brian: No.
Katimsky: Is she a goddess? Physically perfect? The kind of girl who...uh...stops traffic when she walks down the street?
Brian: No.
Katimsky: So, he's...not in love with her?
Jordan: Yeah. He is.
Katimsky: Well, why is that? Why is he in love with her?
Brian: She's not just a fantasy. She's got, like, flaws. She's real.
Katimsky: Thank you.
(from My So-Called Life)
Wesley: Buffy, you will go to the Gleave's family crypt tonight and fetch the amulet.
Buffy: I will?
Wesley: Are you not used to being given orders?
Buffy: Whenever Giles sends me on a mission, he always says "please." And afterwards I get a cookie.
(from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"An intellectual improvement arises from leisure." ~ Samuel Johnson
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." ~ Oren Arnold
"Despite everything, I believe that people really are good at heart." ~ Anne Frank
Sydney: Did you study bomb defusion at Langley?
Vaughn: Just seminars, though. Nothing field-specific.
Sydney: Does anyone ever learn anything in seminars?
Vaughn: Let's just take this one step at a time. This is a charge of C-4. I can tell, 'cause it says "C-4" everywhere.
(from Alias)
Martin: Well, don't worry, I found a girl for you. Now, Duke's daughter Marie just moved back in town...
Frasier: Dad, blind dates remain the refuge of the lovelorn.
Martin: You know, if you didn't talk like that, you might not have to get set up so much.
(from Frasier)
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~ Robert Brault
Daphne: For someone who writes dribble, she's awfully popular.
Frasier: Oh, really, fancy that. She tells everyone that they're perfectly wonderful and that nothing wrong is ever their fault. What do you know, they like it.
Daphne: There's a lot more to it than that. You should try reading one of her books.
Frasier: Yes, well I have. Believe me, after one page, I was yearning for the worldly cynicism of Barney the Dinosaur.
(from Frasier)
"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough." ~ Lao - tzu
"Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than everyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." ~ William Sloan Coffin, Jr.
"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do." ~ Rory Cochrane
Sahjhan: I have a lot of work to do. I can't be in every time/space at once, and here I find you drinking with my sworn enemy.
Angel: Sworn enemy? Really? Have we met? Because I don't remember swearing.
(from Angel)
[Jack watches Tom at the firing range.]
Jack: I think you got him.
Tom: My mother always said, if somebody was worth shootin' once, they're worth shootin' twice.
Jack: I'm sorry I never met her. She sounds like my kind of woman.
(from Alias)
"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." ~ Rumi
"If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." ~ Julia Sorel
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." ~ Georgia O'Keefe
"It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is." ~ George S Will
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Eliot
Angela: Mom, I've been alone with Danielle before.
Patty: Yes, and I can't help but recall the time you put her in the dryer.
Angela: Oh Mom! That was so long ago. I can't believe you're still talking about that...Anyway, she *begged* me to do it.
Patty: Whoever's idea it was, I don't want to come home and find anyone in an appliance.
(from My So-Called Life)
"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Mostly I like to see how the world works. Meet people. Learn how they're different - and the same." ~ MacGyver, on why he moves around so much
Nadia: Mr. Bristow, I don't mean to seem impatient, but I've never done *anything* that's lasted as long as this.
Jack: How sad for you.
(from Alias)
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." ~ Kimberly Johnson
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Frasier: Oh, spare me the psychiatrist bit, Niles. That includes putting down the pad!
[Niles lays the pad on the desk]
Frasier: In the drawer, Niles!
[Niles puts it in the drawer]
Niles: Fine. My first question to you is this: Are you still in love with her?
Frasier (jumping up from his chair): No! Not in the least! It's a ridiculous suggestion!
Niles: Seeing as how I have nowhere to write the phrase, "classic denial," I'll move on. So, about this woman for whom you have so little feeling that you raced across town and burst into one of my sessions - is there any lingering resentment?
(from Frasier)
Jack Sparrow: Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
Will Turner: You didn't beat me: you ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.
Jack Sparrow: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?
(from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." ~ Eric Hoffer
"Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will." ~ Joan Cusack's character to Melanie Griffith's character in "Working Girl."
Angela: Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart.
(from My So-Called Life)
"Success is having what you want, but happiness is wanting what you have."
"Thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice papercut and pour lemon juice on it?" ~ Miracle Max, in The Princess Bride
Willow: That's what it was! I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?
Giles: Willow, I think we're all a little too old to be spelling things out.
Xander: A bitca?
(from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." ~ Carlyle
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." ~ Dolly Parton
Maddie: There are no clients. There never have been any clients. There aren't going to be any clients, are there?
David: I'm not sure I understand the question.
Maddie: Have you EVER had a client?
David: What? You mean at this particular location?
(from Moonlighting)
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." ~ Archibald McLeish
Rachel: There's this one woman; she's amazing and she's about to have a baby. I'm not sure I could manage work and a goldfish.
Sark: Well, aquariums are overrated. Remember that.
(from Alias)
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.
Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
(from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)
"We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act of photography every book we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, and all the people we have loved." ~ Ansel Adams
"We're brainwashed into believing that the best people are normal and attractive and maybe they're not..." ~ Ally McBeal
Niles: Well, as some illustrious person said, "Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity."
Frasier: You just made that up, didn't you?
Niles: Yes, but I stand by it.
(from Frasier)
"When it comes down to me against a situation, I don't like the situation to win." ~ MacGyver
"When you delight in the game, the effort seems unimportant." ~ Anonymous
Marty: Whoa, this is heavy.
Doc: There's that word again, "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
(from Back to the Future)
Norrington: You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
Jack Sparrow: Ah, but you have heard of me.
(from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl)
Tom: You okay?
Rachel: If by "okay" you mean "freaked and embarrassed," then yeah, I'm great.
(from Alias)
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." ~ Beverly Sills
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